This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in … difficult-to-explain trends in the unemployment rate of older German workers …

Before 1979, unemployment insurance (UI) benefits were not treated as taxable income in the United States. Several … has had the predicted effect of reducing unemployment duration.The study uses data on a sample of persons that filed for … presents persuasive evidence of a tax effect on unemployment duration. The 1979 policy change is estimated to have reduced …

states of employment, unemployment, and non-participation. The determinants of actual household transitions are then … functions show that increased unemployment among married men has a sizeable short-run effect on both participation and …

, which was particularly strong in the second half of the 90s, is a major aspect of the downward trends in unemployment and … and the unemployment rate, because a nonparticipant who wants to work has (i) a higher probability of entering the labor … force (compared to other nonparticipants), and (ii) a higher probability of joining unemployment conditional on entering the …

employment is the efficient unemployment rate, u*. We define u* as the unemployment rate that minimizes the nonproductive use of …). Accordingly, the efficient unemployment rate is the geometric average of the unemployment and vacancy rates: u* = √uv. We compute …

This study documents how job seekers update perceived job-finding prospects by unemployment duration and by learning … about aggregate unemployment. We find that job seekers perceive an 18% decline in their job-finding probability for each … additional month of unemployment, but perceive a higher job-finding probability when the aggregate unemployment rate is …

, that frictions (sand-in-the-wheels) may decrease unemployment and that the equilibrium is determined by two simple …